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AKBAR PADAMSEE
(b. 1928)
Untitled
Inscribed 'PADAMSEE 2/4' (on the reverse)
Bronze
Height: 13.25 in (33.5 cm)
Width: 5.5 in (14.2 cm)
Depth: 4.75 in (12 cm)
Rs 15,00,000 ‒ 20,00,000
$ 23,810 ‒ 31,750
The work has been mounted on a wooden base
of size H: 4.5 in (11.4 cm) x W: 6.75 in (17.7 cm)
x D: 5.25 in (13.9 cm)
Second from a limited edition of four
PUBLISHED
Bhanumati Padamsee and Annapurna
Garimella eds.,
Akbar Padamsee: Work in
Language
, Mumbai: Marg Publications and
Pundole Art Gallery, 2010, p. 169 (illustrated)
Akbar Padamsee’s experiment with sculptures
lasted for brief periods of time during the 1950s
and again in the mid‒1980s. He made only a few
of these bronze sculptures, perhaps because he
did not enjoy the many intermediaries needed
in the casting process. As a result they are rare,
and hard to come by.
The artist’s continued interest in constructed
form is evident in the kneaded clay‒like
metalworking technique. “They are like pieces
of space covered by the unity of a single, simple
gesture.” (Nanak Ganguly, “Akbar Padamsee’s
Sculptures,”
Bhanumati
Padamsee
and
Annapurna Garimella eds.,
Akbar Padamsee:
Work in Language
, Mumbai: Marg Publications
and Pundole Art Gallery, 2010, p. 167) The
present lots suggest a quality of aloofness – yet
seem weighed down by emotional content. It is
this very dichotomy that characterises much of
Padamsee’s art.
65
AKBAR PADAMSEE
(b. 1928)
Untitled
Initialled ‘AP' and inscribed ‘4/4' (on the reverse)
Bronze
Height: 10.25 in (26 cm)
Width: 9 in (23 cm)
Depth: 11.5 in (29.5 cm)
Rs 15,00,000 ‒ 20,00,000
$ 23,810 ‒ 31,750
The work has been mounted on a wooden base of
size H: 9.4 in (24 cm) x W: 9 in (23 cm) x D: 9.5 in
(24.5 cm)
Fourth from a limited edition of four
PUBLISHED
Bhanumati Padamsee and Annapurna Garimella eds.,
Akbar Padamsee: Work in Language
, Mumbai: Marg
Publications and Pundole Art Gallery, 2010, p. 164
(illustrated)